Daily Rant Part 2 – January 31, 2009
January 31, 2009
More about Corporate Jets
Rush Limbaugh teaches his listeners about corporate America and why it’s nobody’s business whether a company chooses to buy a corporate jet or not when laying off people and closing stores, especially the government. However, those first in line to take government bailouts shouldn’t be too surprised when they are being told whether they can or can not buy their corporate jets. Here is the transcript for members from his January 27, 2009 show. Here is an excerpt:
…Now, I want to take you back to December, ladies and gentlemen. This is a teachable moment. I don’t want to build it up to be too big a deal, but I want to take you back to last December. Starbucks, the coffee bunch, had just announced layoffs of, oh, I don’t know, thousands of people, and they’re closing some stores. At the same time they were taking the delivery of a new G550 that month, $45 or $50 million corporate jet, and every corporate jet is described as plush, and I can assure you they are not all plush…
It continues… They had ordered this jet three or four years earlier, and they had decided to go ahead and accept delivery because they said the costs of selling it or refusing it made no sense. This caused an outcry. There was an outrage. There were protests all over the great Northwest. Why, how dare they? They’re closing stores and they’re laying people off, how dare they accept the corporate jet? That was the sentiment of about I’d say 99% of the people who heard the story…
…So I asked a question. What is the correct conservative response to Starbucks accepting delivery of their new plush corporate jet? Oh, by the way, to add insult to injury, the CEO flew it to Hawaii for a week over Christmas, between Christmas and New Year’s while having closed stores and laid off employees. And I said, what is the correct conservative response? And then what is the expected public response? Well, the correct conservative response is it’s none of our business. It’s none of anybody’s business. If they want to run that company that way and if it results in the company going to hell and if it results in the morale of the employees that are left going to hell, that’s their business…
But what Rush missed was this; why isn’t anyone asking GOVERNMENT why they are not giving up THEIR jets first? Lead by example! After all, if they can solve this mess, then they created this economic mess. Why should they get to use private jets when people are being laid off and stores closing? After they have mismanaged the public’s money, I think it is incumbent that they stop wasting our money and start walking everywhere! In fact, sell them, and give us tax rebates!
- FedUpEditor
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